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Dr. Heather Hill completed her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Texas A&M University, College Station with a minor in Oceanography in 1996. She earned her master’s (2000) and doctoral (2003) degrees from the University of Southern
Mississippi under the mentorship of Dr. Stan Kuczaj. Dr. Hill spent 3 years working as a research assistant at the Navy Marine Mammal Program in San Diego, CA. Dr. Hill has been teaching psychology at St. Mary’s University,
San Antonio, TX since 2007 and is a Full Professor. She teaches comparative psychology, cognition, learning, development, statistics and research methods. Dr. Hill spent the first 10 years of her marine mammal career conducting research
on the mother-calf relationship and social development of bottlenose dolphins in human care. She also studied mirror self-recognition and mirror use in dolphins and sea lions. Most recently, she has been studying the social behavior
and cognitive abilities of belugas, killer whales, Pacific white-sided dolphins, and bottlenose dolphins in human care. She has also been known to dabble in various aspects of human cognition and development, often at the intersection
of those two fields.
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